Noun
witness stand (plural witness stands)
(chiefly US) An enclosed area in a courtroom where witnesses give their evidence.
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. Jim Garrison
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. Ernst Zundel
You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand. Mary Harris Jones
There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand. Joyce Jillson
After reviewing a transcript of the exchange on the witness stand, he said: "He was referring to a raccoon, I believe." Source: Internet
The pair's collaboration resulted in Whitehouse taking the witness stand on 24 July 2007 in the trial of Langham, in regard to the charge of holding explicit images and videos of minors. Source: Internet